[scribus] Saving file as TIFF

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 17 July 2010 17:46:33 Tom wrote:
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:54:52 +0200
> From: "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>
> Subject: Re: [scribus] Saving file as TIFF
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> 1.3.7 offers the option to export as tif. please consider 
upgrading to the
> unstable (but soon probably stable...) version.
>
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
>
> I downloaded 1.3.7 and it seems to work. However, the 
TIFF that was created
> is quite large. Fortunately the printer allows cover files to 
be 250MB in
> size but LZW compression might be useful if I knew how 
to select it.
>

>
> Does 1.3.7 create output in PDF/X-1a:2001 format files as 
required by some
> widely-used commercial printers?
>
> Thanks,
>
LSI will take a pdf with x/1-a:2001 or alternatively a tiff file.
The bleeding edge  version of Scribus, 1.5.0, will allow X/1-a 
output. That is the one I use. I update it nightly.  If you don't 
want to use that version then save as tiff from 1.3.7.

John Culleton
Wexford Press
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